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I started to watch this and really enjoyed the conversation up to where I nodded off.
Karl Popper is certainly a curious creature. I can't say that I've read it (The Open Society and Its Enemies) but I did read a book he wrote earlier which was more of a deep dive into scientific rationale, reasoning and rigor 'The Brain and Itself'. I'd say that it's actually a debate between the premise of our rationale, scientific mind through the lenses of Popper as a philosopher and scientist, and that of a neurologist. It was actually very helpful in understanding Popper's theoretical notion of worlds as physical, mental, and social constructs.
From what I understand, or feel, a lot of the popularity of his work was somewhat perverted by the ideals of the questionable and dubious 'thought leaders' of our more recent day. Like the interviewee suggested, probably Popper would be horrified by how his ideas have been taken out of context by NGO opportunists who read a few books that were shaping views at the turn of the century, and have created doctrine from misinterpreted conclusions for today.
I'll re-watch this, would like to know what conclusions they came to.
Honestly if this interests you get his book. Its quite good even though I think he makes some mistakes in his characterizations of Mises. I imagine you feel about Popper as I do about Mises. Mises would laugh at calling our current times lead by global free markets with not enough regulation.
Still, I think the story he tells is clear enough as an explanation as to why we are seeing a rise in both populism on the left and right and nationalism. I have nit picked with Reno but I have been thinking about his book every month since I read it earlier this year.
Its the one book I recommend people read that are concerned about nationalism and / or Trump. Not aware that any of them have taken me up on this though. It seems it is easier to listen to the same ole yarns told by your comfortable voices that fail to offer any reason other than madness and stupidity.
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